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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...McCann-Erickson for Liggett & Myers (Chesterfields, L & Ms): "No portrayal of pipe or cigar smoking or chewing . . . While we do not want to create an impression of one continual, smoke-filled room, from time to time in the shows we feel 'natural' smoking action is a requisite by the cast. We don't want public criticism in encouraging the too young or 'too young looking' to smoke. On the other hand, the high school and college market is extremely important to Liggett & Myers as future longtime customers...
...driver in 1946, when he saw a newspaper ad for a shell home for $1,195. It looked like a bargain, and he borrowed the money to buy it. It also looked like a good business, and he borrowed some more to go into partnership with the builder, O. L. Davenport. In 1948 he bought out Davenport for $49,000 and struck out on his own, finally in 1955 was big enough to form the Jim Walter Corp...
...world. His father was a prosperous Le Havre wine merchant, and Dubuffet barely escaped being the same. He tried painting for a while, then gave it up in disgust because he decided he was only imitating his Paris friends, Suzanne Valadon, Raoul Dufy and Fernand Léger. He went back to selling wine, got "a wife, furniture, a maid, a brother-in-law, a car, kids." Then one day before World War II he started to paint again. "My wife didn't like it ... She disappeared. Bon voyage! The brother-in-law disappeared...
...Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, by William L. Shirer. The gaudy, grisly supermen of Nazidom strut their Wagnerian stage once more in a historical chronicle beside which most historical novels seem puny...
...College debating team comprised of four freshmen won the Amherst Invitational Tournament held last Saturday. Competing on the team were: Anthony R. Riolo and Hans Scherner, affirmative; and William L. Burke and Arden G. Doss, negative...